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Auction History Result 5k237 RAMON NOVARRO MGM personality poster '31 he made $10,000 a week as Ben-Hur in 1925! Date Sold 12/6/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded MGM Personality Poster (measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Ramon Novarro was a major Mexican star from the 1910s to the 1930s. He was an extra until starring in The Prisoner of Zenda in 1922, for which he was paid $125 a week. Three years later, he was one of Hollywood's biggest stars, and he earned $10,000 a week for starring in his most famous role, 1925's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. He survived the coming of sound, but his popularity declined greatly after a few sound movies, and he mostly retired. Some of his other movies include: The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and The Big Steal. Sadly, in 1968, he was beaten to death by two punks who invaded his Hollywood home thinking he had a large amount of cash hidden away (he did not!). He was 69 years old. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that MGM created three different sets of personality posters in the 1930s to promote their stars (in the past, I had thought that there were only two different sets, because the ones from the first set are incredibly rare). The earliest set was made in 1931, and it featured MGM's top stars of that time, with each getting a beautiful 22" x 28" full-color head & shoulders portrait (these were the same size as half-sheets, but oriented vertically, and they have no blank borders). Approximately 2 years later, in 1933, MGM created a second set, reflecting the change in their top stars, so some stars remained in the set, but with new images of them, and some stars were dropped and others added in their place. Approximately 2 more years later, in 1935, MGM created yet another set. All three sets can be easily distinguished from each other by the way the stars' names are presented in the bottom. These posters are extremely rare as few theaters ordered them, and fewer still saved them, and in addition, they could be easily torn, and if they were not stored carefully, they would become fragile, and it is likely many were damaged and discarded for that reason! Note that these posters were printed on a high quality paper stock, but it is one that does not always age very well, and can become fragile (usually resulting in chips around the edges of the poster). Because of their fragile nature and their age, we always send these posters in large flat packages, and never roll them into tubes (unless the buyer insists)! PLEASE DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER, UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY THE COST OF SHIPPING IT IN A LARGE FLAT PACKAGE! Condition: very good. The poster has tiny paper loss in the bottom left corner and some slight stains and darkening in the extreme left edge of the top half of the left border. Otherwise, this poster is in surprisingly nice condition, and is not at all fragile or brittle! Learn More about condition grades 
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